Lauri Hakala Good Quotations

I'm so glad I came to UH. We have a really good program, we have good teammates and we are well-coached.

We're part of a team. You don't get any individual recognition if you don't have a good guy setting the ball, if you don't have the thousands and thousands of reps with your teammates. The fact that our entire team made all-conference is very great. It's a good testament to the coaches, too, and to ourselves, and to how hard we worked.

At the beginning, we were kind of careful, I'd say. If you try to be too careful, good things don't follow. You don't have confidence.

They always play good volleyball and we have to really be prepared. I think we are the better team, I think we wanted it more, we stayed focused.

Defensively, he reads the game better than any other libero. He's very technical and he's very good all-around. He can pass all kinds of serves. He doesn't have any weaknesses that stand out so nobody can go after him.